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Societies, as it happens, turn their backs on technologies all the time, even some that seem to be at the very cusp of their accession to prominence. Citizen initiatives have significantly shaped [technologies’] emergence -- and [their] commercial viability -- ... and this has been the case even when groups of disconnected individuals have faced coherent, swaggeringly self-confident, and infinitely better-funded pro-technology lobbies.-Adam Greenfield

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CHAPTER 1

VITALITY, COMPLEXITY & INTIMACYCHAPTER 1

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In very profound ways we are constantly overestimating the power of technology to shape our actions in our cities.- Michael Kimmelman

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CHAPTER 2

FORCES OF RESISTANCECHAPTER 2

FORCES OF RESISTANCE

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The lines of pressure are converging from many directions: limits of environmentally rich land and clean water are being felt throughout the country; shi"s in family size and workforce are changing our social structure; issues of environmental and personal health are mounting; costs of capital and time are reordering investments; and, not least, a new search for identity, community, and a sense of place is motivating many peoples’ lives ...

Too often we see this challenge only in technical terms- Peter Calthorpe

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THE 4 LENSESCHAPTER 3

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LOGISTICS

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When people feel like they belong, they create very strong communities because they feel like this is home.- Andy Yan

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THE BICYCLECHAPTER 4

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They fancy riders, cannot steer,And cannot safely move with speed;And so they feign a foolish fearWhene’er comes up Velocipede.

Don’t believe the stories that they tellOf accident, or foul misdeed;The Journal’s “horse” long since got well,Uninjured by Velocipede.

’Tis envy simply that’s at work:The one who must on foot proceedFeels jealous when, with artful quirk,Another rides Velocipede.

Some, too, there are who hate all fun,Who count all sport of ill the seed;And such judge that the Evil OneHimself devised Velocipede.

Karl KronYale College, 1869

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VIEW FROM THE HEAVENSCHAPTER 5

VIEW FROM THE HEAVENSTHE MASTER PLAN“THE MASTER PLAN”

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Brasília

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Brasília could never be the city of the future, because our society remains that of the past.

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THE HUMAN SCALE OF BITSCHAPTER 6

THE HUMAN SCALE OF BITS

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Jan Gehl

Every architecture school should have a department that is dedicated to designing the ground floors of buildings.

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The challenge for Vancouver, and perhaps all cities, is to be more agile under the diametrically opposed pressure of consumer-driven technology adoption and expectations and the increasing need to minimize risk and maximize value.

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Ever since the emergence of cyberspace, there’s been all these predictions that public space was redundant and cyberspace would take over. We have no evidence whatsoever that this is taking place.-Jan Gehl

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Illustration by Joel Rich, @joelrich, http://joelisrich.comRyan Betts, @hitsmachines, Director of UX - Bazinga!

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